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Senior technology leadership that ships.

Strategy from someone who'll also build the thing, run the thing, or stand beside your team while they do. Nearly thirty years across cybersecurity, cloud, compliance and delivery. AI-augmented throughout.

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When to bring me in

Organisations facing a problem too senior for an MSP, too specialised for a generalist consultant, and too important to wait for a permanent hire.

Sector-agnostic by design. What matters is the shape of the problem, not the industry around it. If any of these sound like the conversation you're having internally, we should probably talk.

Typical situations

  • The organisation is considering a custom platform because existing off-the-shelf options lack critical features, and needs a senior operator to architect and deliver it (or guide the in-house team to do so)
  • An enterprise customer or regulator is asking for SOC 2, ISO 27001 or other compliance evidence and the team can't realistically deliver it alone
  • AI is on the leadership agenda but no one is sure where it actually applies, and the team needs an honest assessment with a working prototype rather than a strategy deck
  • Cloud spend has become unmanaged, identity has sprawled, or the IT estate has outgrown what an MSP can sensibly cover
  • The board has started asking for technology, security or compliance reporting that the current team isn't structured to produce

Why it moves faster

Senior leadership and hands-on delivery from the same operator.

01 · PRECISION

Evidence, not slideware

Every claim has a document, a log line or a control behind it, so when a customer, an auditor or your next CTO asks, the answer is already on file.

02 · CLARITY

Board-ready reporting, customer-ready answers

The technical detail translated into something a CFO, a customer or a board can read in five minutes and make a decision on.

03 · IMPACT

Decisions made, problems closed, work delivered

Engagements end with the deal closed, the audit passed, the platform shipped or the decision made, not with a deliverable that sits on a shelf.

04 · AUTHORITY

Almost thirty years actually doing the job

Senior roles at Exabeam, Trustwave, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, Telefónica and Check Point. Hands-on, not advising from a distance.

Three ways to engage

Lead. Build. Guide.

Lead · Embedded senior leadership

RETAINER · ONGOING · COMMITTED WEEKLY HOURS

End-to-end ownership of a function (security, IT, technology, delivery) with board-ready reporting, audit-ready documentation, and senior accountability without a permanent exec hire.
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Build · Custom delivery

FIXED SCOPE · DEFINED OUTCOMES · DISCOVERY-LED

Bespoke platforms, internal systems, compliance-grade environments and cloud foundations. Includes Compliance Sprint, GCP Operations Foundation, and Custom Platform Build.
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Guide · Advisory and enablement

FIXED SCOPE · COLLABORATIVE · CAPABILITY-BUILDING

Technology strategy and AI opportunity assessment that builds your team's capability rather than dependence. Includes the AI Opportunity Assessment.
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Selected engagements

Strategy delivered. Platforms shipped. Teams enabled.

Each engagement runs on the same operator, the same posture, and the same accountability, whether the work is owning a function, shipping a platform, or building a team's capability.

LEAD

Fractional CISO for a growing SaaS business

Building an IT, security and compliance function from a near-blank state. SOC 2 Type 1 in six months. Enterprise customer unlocked.

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BUILD

A HIPAA-compliant patient clearance platform

Bespoke client-facing platform with regulated workflow logic. Live in production. HIPAA-compliant. Client-owned.

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BUILD

An internal pipeline management platform

Operations, delivery and compliance unified on one platform. Built instead of bought. The off-the-shelf alternatives would have cost more in time and money than building it.

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GUIDE

Repositioning a SaaS category and rebuilding the roadmap conversation

Roadmap, category and exec/customer comms aligned around one process, delivered in collaboration with the in-house team rather than for them.

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Keith Biggin

About Keith

The senior operator who can also build, run, or stand beside the team that does.

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I'm the senior technology leader organisations hire when the work needs strategic ownership and hands-on delivery from the same person. Nearly thirty years across cybersecurity, pre-sales architecture and senior technical leadership, including senior roles at Exabeam, Trustwave, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, Telefónica and Check Point.

I do this work because I've watched too many engagements split between consultants who hand over a deck and operators who inherit a plan they don't have the in-house skills, knowledge or capacity to deliver. The shape that actually works, the one I keep coming back to, is the senior who's still in the work: making the call and writing the code, sitting in the board meeting and the standup. That's where strategy lands.

Strategy without delivery is decoration. AI doesn't change that. It raises the bar.
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Book a 30-minute conversation.

The first call is informal. Describe what's going on, hear how I'd approach it, decide together whether there's a fit. No slide deck, no sales pitch.

or email keith@biggin-insights.com